I was a teacher before the United Teachers of Dade was organized in Miami, and when it was organized, oh, boy, what a difference did it make in my life and the life of my family.

We will stand with both of them and with all public servants to assure that they have respect and dignity on the job.

I was a union member and benefited from my father being a union member and helping to organize steel unions or steel mills in Chicago.

This bill establishes terms that have been shown to be tried and true and effective.

But we are different. We want to make sure that our citizens, the taxpayers, are represented well...

The differences in State government are unique and beautiful things. That is the undergirding of this great democracy...

I was very disappointed to see Florida pass H.B. 7055, which singles out teachers' unions.

We are not any other Nation in the world. There is an international community. The United States of America is separate from any other nation in the world, and it ought to be.

We had to work. It was our responsibility to educate our children.

Imposing collective bargaining on State and local governments will likely result in a massive unfunded mandate on taxpayers.

I will now introduce the witnesses.

We started out as a Nation that broke away from international regulations on us that we would not accept.